Making a Sale
24 May 2014 -- 144/365
Warwick, Rhode Island
Today marks not only the start of Memorial Day Weekend in the US, but it's also the first day of Gaspee Days in Rhode Island. Despite what folks from Massachusetts will tell you, the first planned shots against the British in the American Revolution did not occur in Concord. They happened a few hundred yards off-shore along the Rhode Island coast when, in 1772, Rhode Island patriots burned the revenue ship H.M.S. Gaspee to the waterline. The event which, for Rhode Islanders, started the Revolution, is still celebrated every year. Gaspee Days includes a parade, a 5K Road Race, a colonial militia muster, and culminates with a reenactment of the Burning of the Gaspee.
For today's photo, I visited the arts and crafts fair that traditionally kicks off the two-week long Gaspee Days celebration. Here you see a young lady showing her hand-made glass art to a prospective buyer. You can see by their expressions that they knew they were on camera. It's hard not to be aware of it since I now use a 16-35mm lens for this type of event, and to take this photo I was only a couple of feet away from them. It always amazes me that the presence of the camera does not change their actions unless you want them to.
Post processing started with a classic filter in Topaz B&W FX. I adjusted color sensitivity sliders, adaptive exposure, regions, contrast, boost black, and boost white. A levels adjustment was added in PSE.
@cejaanderson About the Gaspee Incident, yes! It's one of my all-time favorite stories from the Revolution.
@lilminimonka Thanks, Brianna! I was amazed that they didn't react when I took the photo. It's hard not to notice a camera clicking away just a couple of feet from you. LOL
@lilminimonka Thanks, Brianna! I was amazed that they didn't react when I took the photo. It's hard not to notice a camera clicking away just a couple of feet from you. LOL